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Portuguese venture capital firm Best Horizon was established in 2014. Since then, its portfolio has grown to about 50 companies based in Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Brazil and the US. The firm has €3m in two investment vehicles for pre-seed and seed investments in tech companies that either have their headquarters or a subsidiary in the North, Centre, Alentejo and Azores regions of Portugal.
Portuguese venture capital firm Best Horizon was established in 2014. Since then, its portfolio has grown to about 50 companies based in Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Brazil and the US. The firm has €3m in two investment vehicles for pre-seed and seed investments in tech companies that either have their headquarters or a subsidiary in the North, Centre, Alentejo and Azores regions of Portugal.
Expense management app finds the best tariffs, automates switch to lowest-price provider and aggregates bills into one fixed monthly payment – allowing better financial planning.
Expense management app finds the best tariffs, automates switch to lowest-price provider and aggregates bills into one fixed monthly payment – allowing better financial planning.
Since its acquisition by US-based internet giant IAC in 2003, Expedia Inc has quickly transformed into a worldwide travel group with stakes in SilverRail, Hotels.com, Trivago, HomeAway, Orbitz, Travelocity, Mobiata travel apps and long-term China partner eLong.Expedia.com was originally launched in 1996 as Microsoft’s pioneering online travel booking venture to help consumers to search for the best travel deals and book tickets at the best prices.
Since its acquisition by US-based internet giant IAC in 2003, Expedia Inc has quickly transformed into a worldwide travel group with stakes in SilverRail, Hotels.com, Trivago, HomeAway, Orbitz, Travelocity, Mobiata travel apps and long-term China partner eLong.Expedia.com was originally launched in 1996 as Microsoft’s pioneering online travel booking venture to help consumers to search for the best travel deals and book tickets at the best prices.
Formerly an online healthcare platform, Konsula has transformed into Lemonilo and is serving up healthy alternatives to popular Indonesian comfort foods and snacks.
Formerly an online healthcare platform, Konsula has transformed into Lemonilo and is serving up healthy alternatives to popular Indonesian comfort foods and snacks.
With a database of over 140,000 IT professionals, Landing.Jobs uses AI to match best candidates to employers, e-skills training and career development programs.
With a database of over 140,000 IT professionals, Landing.Jobs uses AI to match best candidates to employers, e-skills training and career development programs.
CekAja is more than just a price comparison website. Using Big Data analytics, CekAja offers end-to-end financial and insurance services to consumers.
CekAja is more than just a price comparison website. Using Big Data analytics, CekAja offers end-to-end financial and insurance services to consumers.
Founder and CEO of GetSocial
Armed with a master’s in Business Administration and Computer Science from the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, João Romão is looking to change the way companies and audiences interact with social media and social networks. His experience includes consulting stints around Portugal at AIESEC and Novabase Consulting and as the CEO of Wishareit, a Lisbon-based social shopping platform. In 2013, Romão founded GetSocial, a social analytics and content automation platform that helps marketers and publishers measure, promote and amplify their best work.
Armed with a master’s in Business Administration and Computer Science from the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, João Romão is looking to change the way companies and audiences interact with social media and social networks. His experience includes consulting stints around Portugal at AIESEC and Novabase Consulting and as the CEO of Wishareit, a Lisbon-based social shopping platform. In 2013, Romão founded GetSocial, a social analytics and content automation platform that helps marketers and publishers measure, promote and amplify their best work.
Founder and CEO of Eventec
Born in 1992, Huang is pursuing her doctoral degree in Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. While studying for her master's at UESTC in 2016, she founded a robotics startup. Huang and her team developed a badminton robot that played against Premier Li Keqiang and also won the Best Innovative Robotic Technology Award at the 2016 World Robotics Conference. In 2017, she was nominated for University Student of the Year by China Campus magazine.
Born in 1992, Huang is pursuing her doctoral degree in Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. While studying for her master's at UESTC in 2016, she founded a robotics startup. Huang and her team developed a badminton robot that played against Premier Li Keqiang and also won the Best Innovative Robotic Technology Award at the 2016 World Robotics Conference. In 2017, she was nominated for University Student of the Year by China Campus magazine.
Founded in 2004 by one of China’s best-known venture capitalists Cao Guoxiong (Tony Cao), Puhua Capital currently has RMB 1 billion under management. It has invested about 300 startups, including 40+ that have gone public.
Founded in 2004 by one of China’s best-known venture capitalists Cao Guoxiong (Tony Cao), Puhua Capital currently has RMB 1 billion under management. It has invested about 300 startups, including 40+ that have gone public.
Philips is a multinational conglomerate based in the Netherlands. It is best-known for its consumer electronics, which includes lights, appliances, and even smart tools for pregnant mothers. It is also a leader in hearing aids and medical devices.
Philips is a multinational conglomerate based in the Netherlands. It is best-known for its consumer electronics, which includes lights, appliances, and even smart tools for pregnant mothers. It is also a leader in hearing aids and medical devices.
Co-founder and CEO of BlackGarlic
Michael Saputra is best known for establishing the successful food ordering website Klik-Eat with co-founder Willy Haryanto. They sold the business in June 2015 and went on to develop a meal kit startup BlackGarlic.An electrical engineering graduate from Purdue University in USA, Michael had worked briefly at Bosch, Whirlpool Corporation and Maxim Integrated Products before his master’s program at the University of Texas in Dallas. He made a career switch as a business analyst at Asia Pulp & Paper before co-founding Klik-Eat in June 2011.
Michael Saputra is best known for establishing the successful food ordering website Klik-Eat with co-founder Willy Haryanto. They sold the business in June 2015 and went on to develop a meal kit startup BlackGarlic.An electrical engineering graduate from Purdue University in USA, Michael had worked briefly at Bosch, Whirlpool Corporation and Maxim Integrated Products before his master’s program at the University of Texas in Dallas. He made a career switch as a business analyst at Asia Pulp & Paper before co-founding Klik-Eat in June 2011.
Spanish-born Juan Urdiales is best known as the co-CEO and co-founder of UK-based employment site Jobandtalent where he has worked since 2009. As angel investors, Urdiales and co-CEO Felipe Navio have also participated in the €1.15m seed round of fintech StudentFinance in 2019.
Spanish-born Juan Urdiales is best known as the co-CEO and co-founder of UK-based employment site Jobandtalent where he has worked since 2009. As angel investors, Urdiales and co-CEO Felipe Navio have also participated in the €1.15m seed round of fintech StudentFinance in 2019.
Founder & CEO of Fork
Design and internet whizz and millennial. Known online as "Flypig”, this Nankai University graduate was half of the duo that produced Fanpo (Antiwave), a podcast series on foreign and Chinese media that won the 2005 Deutsche Welle's Global Best Podcast. Lin was also chief designer and founder of design brand Da Code; was responsible for launching Youku Buzz marketing programs targeted at Western advertisers and internet users. In 2009 he joined e-retailer startup Light In The Box, which later went global and got listed. In January 2015, he left the position of vice-president to start Fork.
Design and internet whizz and millennial. Known online as "Flypig”, this Nankai University graduate was half of the duo that produced Fanpo (Antiwave), a podcast series on foreign and Chinese media that won the 2005 Deutsche Welle's Global Best Podcast. Lin was also chief designer and founder of design brand Da Code; was responsible for launching Youku Buzz marketing programs targeted at Western advertisers and internet users. In 2009 he joined e-retailer startup Light In The Box, which later went global and got listed. In January 2015, he left the position of vice-president to start Fork.
Co-founder and CEO of Limakilo
Having attained a master’s in Electronics, Digital Media & Game Technologies in 2013 from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in Indonesia, Walesa Danto continues to have a passion for creative IT products and hardware as a software engineer.Walesa’s Limakilo mobile app won a hackathon Code4Nation award in August 2015, as one of three Best App winners to solve Indonesia’s commodities issues.The former lecturer at Telkom Institute of Technology, now known as Telkom University, always feels challenged to deliver new products with a focus on user experience using the User Centered Design approach.
Having attained a master’s in Electronics, Digital Media & Game Technologies in 2013 from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in Indonesia, Walesa Danto continues to have a passion for creative IT products and hardware as a software engineer.Walesa’s Limakilo mobile app won a hackathon Code4Nation award in August 2015, as one of three Best App winners to solve Indonesia’s commodities issues.The former lecturer at Telkom Institute of Technology, now known as Telkom University, always feels challenged to deliver new products with a focus on user experience using the User Centered Design approach.
Clarity AI uses machine learning and data analytics to effectively assess and score environmental, social and governance performance of companies and investment portfolios
SWITCH Singapore: Xpeng expects strong China EV growth after 3Q rebound, launches overseas expansion
Welcoming foreign player entry as potential boost to EV adoption, Xpeng President Brian Gu also notes attractiveness of overseas markets, especially Europe
Zoundream: Deciphering and mining the data in baby cries
The world’s first algorithm to translate baby cries into actionable insights for parents and hospitals seeks to boost early detection of pathologies and developmental disorders
Something positive could come out of the Facebook fallout
Users and startups could learn a lot from the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. For a start, don’t succumb to apathy
Yu Minhong: Rags-to-riches education guru
When the New Oriental founder was working in the rice paddies as a teenager, it never occurred to him that he would become the richest teacher in China one day
Jungle.ai: Tapping data and AI to prevent outages and breakdowns
Forewarned is forearmed. Performance predictions by Jungle.ai can help save billions of dollars and hours of frustration caused by sudden power failures
Waterdrop: Using crowdfunding and social media to disrupt health insurance
Insurtech startup Waterdrop helps families in China who cannot afford medical treatment to raise money via online mutual aid and crowdfunding, while selling insurance plans too
Petit Pli: Origami-inspired clothes that still fit, even after the body has grown
Founded by a young aeronautical engineer, Petit Pli produces stylish, sustainable pleated garments made from recycled plastic that expand up to seven sizes
Nucaps Nanotechnology: New encapsulation tech for nutritional and pharmaceutical sectors
Nucaps Nanotechnology is growing through a mix of accelerating market penetration and continuous R&D
NotCo: Will this Bezos-backed plant-based foodtech be Chile's first unicorn?
Armed with $85m Series C funding, NotCo has expanded to the US, competing head-on with popular US alt-protein brands for a foothold in the multibillion-dollar vegan market
Kathy Xu stays ahead of the curve in China's VC scene
Dubbed “Queen of VC” in China, Xu has spotted great companies that others were not quite interested in, like Chinese online retail giant JD.com
TurtleTree Labs: Creating sustainable mammalian milk alternatives from stem cells
Founder’s search for high-quality dairy milk led to the creation in a lab of naturally occurring ingredients found in human milk for supply to dairy milk and infant formula businesses
Stockeld Dreamery: Vegan cheese created together with chefs
Backed by €16.5m in new funding, Stockeld Dreamery sets to expand into Europe and North America, and double its team to 50 a year on
A Q&A with the Veniam founder and CEO
Amid Covid-19, Indonesian P2P lender KoinWorks raises $20m in convertible note funding
Backed by Quona Capital, EV Growth and other investors, KoinWorks plans to disburse more loans amid greater uncertainty and default risk
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